Jennifer Givhan was a Pen Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellow, as well as a St. Lawrence Book Award finalist and a Vernice Quebodeaux Pathways Prize finalist for her poetry collection, and she is a fellowship recipient in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in over fifty journals and anthologies, including Best New Poets 2013, Prairie Schooner, DASH Journal (where her poem won the 2013 poetry prize), Indiana Review (where her poem was a finalist for the 2013 poetry prize), Contrary, Rattle, and The Los Angeles Review. She teaches composition at Western New Mexico University.